Anko POV
She'd been out cold for twenty two days, a spontaneous and serious coma. They'd had to do five separate blood transfusions while she slept, and the bleeding would start again randomly. It had progressed to where not only were her eyes and nose bleeding, but she'd cough up blood that had built up in her lungs. Her lungs have been drained of the blood nine times by now, and she's not showing any signs of getting better. I hadn't left her alone for long over the last couple days, and that Kiba kid took turns between sitting at her bedside and his teammate's. If he wasn't in their room his ninken was, and currently, the little ninken was curled up on the edge of Violetta's bed. Several times others had stopped by, including the girl she'd fought in the preliminaries, who left a letter for when she woke up. Genma stops in the doorway, I must be needed for something. Sighing I give the ninken a stern look.
"Keep an eye on her, I'll be back soon." He yips softly in response and I follow Genma away from her room.
Violetta POV
Breathing was painful, and I felt as though I'd been hit with Lee's lotus a few million times in a row. I felt like I couldn't open my eyes, and I wondered about the bandaging I could feel on my arms and my torso. A faint whimper came from beside me, and I instinctually try to reach toward Akamaru. He comes up beside me and licks my palm, I still haven't opened my eyes, but I imagine he looks incredibly worried. Coughing softly, I push myself into a sitting position and slowly pry my eyes open. It's painful, and the world is fairly blurry but I imagine that's what happens when your eyes bleed excessively.
It has never been this bad before, and I wish I knew how long I'd been out for. Whatever happened, I have to figure it out and get a hold on it fast so it doesn't happen again. Akamaru nuzzles my side gently and I pat his head softly, squinting at the clock I cough again and attempt to move my legs over the edge of the bed. However, before I can do so, a nurse appears and scolds me. When the doctor comes in a little while later, he informs me I'll be on bedrest until the final exams, and I'm to come back right after them as well to stay for a while after that. I'll have to make my plans from the confines of this room.
Day of the Finals
Everything wasn't going to go smoothly, that much I knew, but I hoped I would be able to remedy at least one event. Everything else, well, it goes well enough on its own that I don't feel the need to meddle at all. Kakashi was given his instructions for later, and I tapped my foot nervously while Ino kept watching me from the corner of her eye.
The preliminaries weren't off to a great start. The crowd was furious, Sasuke's match had to be postponed because he was late. Kankuro forfeited to conserve his energy, his sister isn't to interfere with anything to do with the invasion, as I'd instructed her. Much worse things happen if anyone tries to stop it from happening altogether.
Ino and Shikamaru's fight was next, and two clan heads and teammates fighting one another did seem to tide the crowd over a bit.
"Don't you go easy on me Shikamaru! I can take whatever you've got." Grumbling he barely manages to dodge her first kick when the proctor begins the match. She's careful to touch the ground sporadically, unpredictably, as far from his as possible and as little as possible. He's on the defensive and flees into the tree line. Ino is smart enough to stay back, and glancing around she notices the hole leftover from Naruto and Neji's match. A perfect thing for him to exploit to lengthen his shadow. She launches back away from them to the other side of the arena, eyeing down the thinking Shikamaru. Pulling out a couple of smoke bombs, she attaches them to kunai and launches them into various places in the trees. Shikamaru's thoughts are disrupted and he's forced back into the open and right into Ino who launched to take him out as he exited the trees, predicting the direction he would head toward safety. He'd tried to maneuver to keep himself close to the holes in the ground, and against someone who wasn't his teammate with a more tactical mind than she's given credit for, he might have succeeded. As it was, her roundhouse kick knocks him into a tumble that continues all the way to the other side of the arena. As far away from those holes and extra shadows as she could get him. Before she can go after him again, he forfeits.
"Bah, this is a drag. I quit, she already ruined my plan. I had no idea she'd gotten this good." The proctor calls it, and since Dosu also never showed, they have to deliberate on a few different matters. Sasuke better show up like he's supposed to- There he is.
The match begins,and it goes exactly how I saw it play out in my mind. As the match begins to heat up I tell Ino that I'm going to go to the restrooms, and head to roof above where the Kages sit. It's now or never, and now always sounds better to me.
My view had been slightly obscured from where I laid in wait, but I launched onto the roof just before the barrier went up. I barely dodged the kunai thrown at me, and I could hear Orochimaru chuckle darkly.
"Don't worry, it's just a little fish. This genin is nothing more than a plaything that will try to delay the inevitable." I don't respond, simply moving to stand beside the Hokage, whose discarded his ceremonial wear in exchange for the shinobi wear he keeps on underneath it.
"Violetta, please avoid the fight as much as possible. This is beyond your level." Shaking my head I hand the Hokage a small blue vial, and pull out one for myself.
"I make no promises, please drink that quickly." Once he's downed the liquid I finally acknowledge the silent Orochimaru.
"Even little fish can make waves." I throw the poison smoke bomb into the air where it detonates with a bang. The blue smoke billows out, Poison Number 623, Chakra Inhibition Poison, Decreases the victim's chakra by half. Can be permanent, antidote must be taken before exposure. It's not much when you're going against a sannin, considering half of one of their chakra is at least five times my own, but still. I'll take whatever I can get.
Taking cover and trying to stay out of the fray, I watch in amazement as the landscape changes. With so much of his chakra depleted, Orochimaru fails to summon the previous hokage's but he still manages to get a hold on Sarutobi and just before his blade pierces him I shushin into space between them.
"My apologies Hokage-sama, I stayed out of it until now, but I couldn't any longer." Each of my gloved hands is gripping one of Orochimaru's wrists, and I grin as I can see the poison begin to seep off of them and into his system. He jerks away from me when he notices as well, leaving the blade behind in my shoulder.
"Like I said, even little fish can make big waves. I've done some research, and I had a friend of mine that's a water type activate a nervous system toxin that's only effective in chakra infused water vapor, and then we mixed it with a blood toxin. Together they form another poison that actually already exists but is nearly impossible to make, and completely impossible to treat. Your arms will never work again, and the other poison I used will reduce your chakra by half for at least the next few months. Depending on your immune system, that could be permanent too. You've lost,-" Coughing I fall back and the Hokage gently lowers me done, preparing to fight Orochimaru again. However, Orochimaru flees before he can do so, and rather than pursue him the Hokage stays by my side. He begins to scold me, the blade was poisoned after all, but I wave him off.
"I took poison number 598, its only purpose is to latch onto other poisons in the blood stream. It keeps them from spreading, but in doing so it... It puts you to sleep until the other poison wears off or is removed, or you die, the only downside is that... It does the same to antidotes, even its own if there's another poison in the system. It's-cough-time for you to retire... Send Jiraiya and Naruto to find her, the Legendary Sannin... Tsunade." I can't be sure, but as I speak and the world fades to black, I fear that I see tears on the Hokage's face. Ah, I hope he forgives me for going to sleep now...
DUN DUN DUN! The next part of the series, "A Heart of Violet", will release by June 2019(So that I can finish up school.)! Be sure to check it out, as well as my upcoming story about My Hero Academia, "Of Psychokinetics and Pyromaniacs", that will release before then as I've been working on it longer than even this story!
I've been so grateful for all of you that have taken the time to even read a single chapter of this, and more grateful to those who have reviewed and favourited and followed! It means so much to me, and I hope we can continue this journey together.